Thursday, July 19, 2018

Poems for Jennifer III by David C. McLean is now on sale at Amazon. It's at this link. Here's the blurb we did:

Latest book of poems by David C. McLean from Nickel Hole Press. Contains
his best work, love poetry very influenced by Lyotard's libidinal
economy & the work of Deleuze about desire & desiring machines.

Fragments is a collection of pieces that explore such topics as dog sex
in the Phoenix area,the stupidity of the average American, & the
author's mental illness & poverty, both by circumstance & by
psychogenesis at the hostile hands of her family.
Jennifer S. Chesler is an author who is influenced by deconstruction,
dadaism, nihilism, & situationism. This book is edited by David
McLean
This book is published via Lulu by Nickel Hole Press.

Friday, June 1, 2018

Fragments is the third written, but first published,
of Jennifer S. Chesler’s four novels to date. Fragments has the form of
an anthology,
but functions as a sort of aleatory novel, in that Chesler randomly
ordered the
texts when she first wrote them, & I, who ultimately edited the
book, reordered it & added new pieces from her archives. The
interconnection of the pieces is both thematic
& linguistic, & unifies the novel regardless of the
exigencies
of ordering. This
reordering was particularly necessary, by the way, since the book had
been massacred by a worthless agent & was not in its first form. I write this since I am, according to the author, the only person who knows the back story to every piece.The
book is brilliant & deserves recognition for
its innovative nature. Among many topics covered in the book are dog sex in the
Phoenix area,
the stupidity of the average American, the patriarchal nature of
society, the worthlessness of almost all sexual relationships, &
the author’s
mental illness & poverty (caused by an upbringing in a hostile
family environment &, later, a life among worthless scumbags as a
consequence of a low self-esteem & "political correctness" in
the sense of thinking that all humans have equal value, which they
obviously don't).The book portrays the effects of defective child-rearing & a dysfunctional attitude to sexuality. A character in the book, for example, portraying male sexuality, assumes the form of a non-human mythological creature who is without language or intelligence, & exists solely as an inhuman form of generalized homosexual desire. He is totally without value, & this reflects upon the early experiences of the author with predatory & abusive males with a low mental status, the death of one of whom is described in the book.There is an emphasis on nausea & anxiety & a description of how
societal values together with familial pressure actually validated
anorexia, giving vomiting a higher value than might be usual in more well-regulated households.The effects of prostitution are portrayed, along with the fact that most marriages in the wealthier strata in the USA are basically a form of whoring. Some pieces are basically included to offend, & speak of prostitution as though it were acceptable on any level, although feminist consciousness is retained in the underlying tone of sarcasm, describing degrading & disgusting practices in a way that seems to normalize them. The people are egoistic & the fault with prostitution is the fault with much sex nowadays, according to Lyotard - everything & everybody treats what should be an incommensurable & invaluable intensity as though it were a unit of exchange. The author uses direct quotes, & in every case the speaker is barely human: they are stupid, selfish, & without any redeeming features. The reported speech is full of colloquialisms & non sequiturs. Among subjects ridiculed are the American obsession with veterans, dog masturbation (apparently used as a dog training method), the general stupidity of any pretense to knowledge in a country where dysgenic fertility is rampant & idiocy reigns everywhere supreme. Chesler was told as a child to conceal the fact that she was more intelligent than others, perhaps in case she would not be able to get a man. The
men she encountered were so worthless & bad in bed that she became a
lesbian, but the women were such scumbags that they were worse. One
character, The Narcissist in the book, had a micro-penis to which he never alluded, such is American arrogance. The whole familial & societal analysis bears traces of Deleuze & Guattari; prostitution represented
a failed line of flight from the static familial constellation, this
first line of flight was actually a flight to degradation that
transformed into a retreat into perversion that was actually a retreat
into intellectualist & literary perversity that became a successful line of flight - leaving the city, the family, the social to assume a nomad existence in a fictional world. Several pieces reflect this, the author writes on a meta-level, & gives advice to the reader in various fashions, each of which reflects the construction of an alleged identity. A writer whom Chesler once interviewed is included, although the interviews
were never published since they were so abusive & dismissive of the
writer, who had written a childish book about BDSM featuring "advice" about "safewords" for people who don't know what they're doing. The short pieces in fragments are classic dismissals that mock the interviewed writer's defective grasp of English. Chesler never met a real dominant, since there are almost none of us around, & the work in Fragments related to BDSM is funny in that the feeble nature of the egos of the participants is exposed.One of the best pieces, written high on meth, describes dental work on, & sexy dentures for, stillborn babies in a dialog piece that resembles Plath on mothers in form. Elsewhere rhymed prose is used, some pieces have the form of doggerel poems, & the pieces have been ordered to reflect the structural peculiarities of the texts, & thus of the book.The book can be ordered here at Lulu.It is also on sale on Amazon at this link.A preview can also be found on Google Books.

Monday, May 7, 2018

Here is a spotlight just created for Nickel Hole Press at Lulu, the POD site we use. Books by David McLean & Jennifer Chesler are there.If you are into BDSM, sex, experimental fiction, innovative literature,
Araud, anarchy, Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, feminism, postmodernism,
liberatory literature, & literature that criticizes hegemony & Foucault's critique of
the policing of thought by the psychiatric establishment, then this is
something for you.